Museum Store Association Museum Trade Show 2015

From visibility to credibility, exhibiting at a trade show has hundreds of benefits for your business. Establishing a presence, whether big or small, for your company at a trade show gives you a powerful platform for meeting new customers, reaching out to your existing clientèle, and building a more established and reliable brand. If you have a product that is ready for retail, we want to hear about it. Click the button below to submit your product now!

2015 Trade Show Dates

April 17th through the 20th, the Museum Store Association will be sponsoring the Museum Store Association Museum Expo at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, CT. The MSA Museum Expo is the only conference and trade show specifically for retailers who have stores at museums, historical sites, botanical gardens, aquariums, zoos, libraries and more. This conference and expo is set up to help nonprofit retail professionals succeed in business by offering four days of learning sessions, networking opportunities, and the chance to buy the perfect products for their retail stores.

The opening keynote speaker for the MSA Museum Expo is Roderick Buchanan, the director of buying and retail at British Museum Company. The learning sessions throughout the expo will include MSA Retail Boot Camp, Open to Buy Workshop, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Retailers, Leadership is a Choice, Not a Position, Turning Your Gift Shop into a Museum Store, Perspectives on Fair Trade and What’s Your Customer Value Proposition. Buyers will also be able to browse over 200 select vendors and shop products that will be a perfect fit for their retail store. Vendors will be showcasing products such as apparel, books, food, jewelry, home and garden, toys and games, Made in America, store supplies, POS systems and more. The MSA Museum Expo offers multiple networking opportunities for attendees in order to help them make and build long-lasting mutually beneficial relationships. The MSA Expo has an opening reception, a buffet networking lunch, a members only networking reception, discussion groups and breakfast, and a closing reception with lunch.

Exhibitors will benefit from showcasing at the MSA Museum Expo because highly qualified buyers will be in attendance and they will be placing many orders with vendors. This is a great chance for vendors to increase their sales and build their client base. Store managers and buyers, retail operations personnel, directors of product development, and merchandising directors museum retail staff and directors will all be in attendance. These buyers won’t miss this MSA Museum Expo because this expo helps them find solutions to issues they have in store, they can shop an expo with vendors who know their visitors and their merchandising needs and they are able to share best practices with others in the nonprofit retail community.